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She set the continent a-flame, that she might seize the affrighted inhabitants as they ran shrieking from their blazing hamlets.
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Mann vividly depicts the destruction caused by slavery, emphasizing its violent nature.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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